In September 2003, the EEOC district office in Baltimore, Maryland brought this suit against the Maryland Classified Employees Association, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The complaint states that two female employees alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of ...
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In September 2003, the EEOC district office in Baltimore, Maryland brought this suit against the Maryland Classified Employees Association, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The complaint states that two female employees alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it maintained a sexually hostile work environment and retaliated against the women for complaining about harassment. Specifically, the women allege that the defendant committed retaliatory harassment against one woman for filing a charge of harassment and retaliated against the other complainant for assisting in the investigation. After virtually no discovery and one settlement conference, the parties settled and a consent decree was entered April 2004.

In the consent decree, the parties agreed that the defendant would pay the complainants a total of $29,000, change is application questions, expunge employee files of any reference to this litigation, submit complaints to the EEOC for review, provide EEO training, post an EEO notice, and allow the EEOC to review for compliance with no prior notice. No fees or costs were awarded. The terms of the decree ran for twenty-one months.